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Michael Cornfield, a political scientist, is an Associate Professor of Political Management at The George Washington University Graduate School of Political Management (GSPM), and Research Director for the Global Center for Political Management.
Cornfield directs the PEORIA (Public Echoes Of Rhetoric in America) Project, a research initiative developing qualitative and quantitative methods to extract political intelligence from social media data. Project reports and bulletins may be found at https://gspm.gwu.edu/peoria-project , along with his “Rhetorical Recaps” of important speeches and debates in American politics.
Cornfield exclusively teaches the introductory course in the Political Management Program, Fundamentals of Political Management, and supervises the thesis and independent study courses. He helped adapt the GSPM curriculum to the age of digital, mobile, and social media politics by creating more than six courses. His “memo memo,” a guide to writing strategy memos, has been adopted by other professors; he devised the current template for the concluding “Capstone” course.
Cornfield is the author of two books: Politics Moves Online: Campaigning and the Internet (The Century Foundation, 2004) and The Civic Web: Online Politics and Democratic Values, co-edited with David M. Anderson (Rowman & Littlefield, 2003). His examination of the impact of Twitter on the first 2016 GOP presidential debate appeared in Social Media, Political Marketing and the 2016 US Election (Routledge, 2018). His research into the origins of and reactions to President Trump’s “Fake News!” campaign appeared in An Anatomy of Fake News (LSU Press, 2018).
Cornfield comments on American politics frequently in the news media, especially overseas outlets seeking adept summaries for international audiences. He served as expert “presenter” (commentator) for the BBC World Service radio network during the 2012, 2014, and 2016 elections. He regularly reviews political science books for The Guardian.
Cornfield received his B.A. from Pomona College and his Ph.D. from Harvard University. Before coming to The George Washington University, he taught at the University of Virginia and the College of William and Mary. Cornfield also served as a Senior Research Consultant to the Pew Internet & American Life Project. He lives with his wife Kathryn Mimberg and son Matthew in Arlington, Virginia.